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Not having testing leads parents to think their kids are doing fine... until it's too late.

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My experience with the Newcastle football team in Oklahoma leads me to believe that, as long as impact sensors are strictly used for the limited purpose of providing real - time impact data to qualified sideline personnel, not to diagnose concussions, not as the sole determining factor in making remove - from - play decisions, and not to replace the necessity for observers on the sports sideline trained in recognizing the signs of concussion and in conducting a sideline screening for concussion using one or more sideline assessment tests for concussion (e.g. SCAT3, balance, King - Devick, Maddocks questions, SAC)(preferably by a certified athletic trainer and / or team physician), and long as data on the number, force, and direction of impacts is only made available for use by coaches and athletic trainers in a position to use such information to adjust an athlete's blocking or tackling tec hnique (and not for indiscriminate use by those, such as parents, who are not in a position to make intelligent use of the data), they represent a valuable addition to a program's concussion toolbox and as a tool to minimize repetitive head impacts.

The moment an impact registers above a certain threshold, or the moment the Head Case Mobile App tests indicate impairment or risk of further injury, the Head Health Management System can alert parents and will automatically provide the athlete with direct leads to Emergency Response Services and customized recovery plans.

Lead poisoning can cause learning disabilities but parents weren't notified and the City Department of Health won't test children for lead poisonLead poisoning can cause learning disabilities but parents weren't notified and the City Department of Health won't test children for lead poisonlead poisoning.

There's continued dissatisfaction over the state's implementation of the new Common Core standards, which parents, students and teachers have complained has led to too much testing.

Nolan pointed to the need for long lead time in notifying parents of an upcoming test and test preparation.

Didn't he support the testing mania that has led to hundreds of thousands of parents keeping their kids out of state testing programs?

«These findings cement the fact that New York is leading the way in open testing and should serve to calm the nerves of parents and educators who have expressed concerns about higher standards.

Following the discovery of high levels of lead in the water in Newark's schools, New York City is unveiling a website where parents can track the results of lead testing in its schools.

MaryEllen Elia, tapped seven months ago to lead New York's education department, now finds herself wedged between a federal mandate to test students and a groundswell of parents in this state who refuse to let their kids take the tests.

The lawmakers, concerned with a backlash not just from the teachers but in some cases from vocal parent - constituents, appear to have followed the union's lead: The moratorium, which has been a major legislative priority of New York State United Teachers, would essentially hold harmless teachers, principals and students from low test scores on Common Core - aligned exams for two years.

In recent years, as many as 20 percent of students across the state opted out of these tests, led by parents and teachers who criticized the way the state handled standardized testing.

If parents think that their child has been exposed to lead, they should talk with their pediatrician about getting a blood test to check for lead.

Parents should be reminded to have their children tested for lead at one year and again at age two.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — During National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, Oct. 19 through 25, the Westchester County Department of Health encourages parents and caregivers to eliminate hazards at home that can cause lead poisoning in children and to assure their young children are tested for lead exposLead Poisoning Prevention Week, Oct. 19 through 25, the Westchester County Department of Health encourages parents and caregivers to eliminate hazards at home that can cause lead poisoning in children and to assure their young children are tested for lead exposlead poisoning in children and to assure their young children are tested for lead exposlead exposure.

Individual screening tests can already identify silent carriers of many single faulty recessive genes — the kind that, when inherited in double (one copy from each parent), can lead to conditions such as cystic fibrosis and Tay - Sachs disease.

And recent reports that some popular baby formulas and foods tested positive for lead and arsenic, and BPA and its potentially harmful substitutes can be passed from mother to child in utero only make matters worse for health - conscious parents.

For example, dissatisfaction with performance in a charter middle school that is not captured by test scores (such as discipline issues or a poor fit between the student's interests or ability and the curriculum being offered) could lead parents to choose to send their child to a traditional public high school.

In a letter to school parents, Wolf explained that school officials have contracted with an industrial cleaning consultant as well as consultants to conduct further testing of mold, lead, carbon dioxide, and radon.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

In short, the very conditions that led parents to revolt because of an over-reliance on testing, curriculum narrowing, and aggressive test preparation are not going away.

The government has come under criticism for its reforms to Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 SATs tests, which led to parents taking children out of school for a one day strike in May this year.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

One of the more interesting questions the CCSR asked was, Did high - stakes accountability cause the teachers, parents, and students of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to change their behavior in ways that would lead to higher achievement, or does the evidence suggest that the CPS's initiatives resulted in simply more focus on testing?

That would surely lead to court challenges forcing the Education Department to justify penalizing schools when parents exercise their legitimate right to refuse the test.

Leaving BASIS means that the parents have to repay the school the $ 93 fee for any AP tests taken and failing an AP exam likely leads to having to pay for an additional taking of the exam.

District officials and the school board have come to realize that encouraging more parent centers on school campuses leads to more community engagement, higher attendance and eventually better test scores and higher graduation rates.

In the Central Valley and across the country, the Parent Home Visit Project is offering a different model of family engagement that has led to many positive results including better communication between school and home, and improvements in student attendance rates and test scores.

«Parents are fed up with constant testing,» concluded Pamela Grundy from Parents Across America, who helped lead a community revolt against expanding testing in Charlotte, North Carolina last year.

Some parents complain the movement has led to more tests for children, which take up valuable instruction time.

Leading up to the tests, some districts sent letters to parents asking whether their children would be participating in the assessments.

Too much focus on testing and test prep, narrowing of the curriculum, stressed students, concerned parents, exasperated teachers --- taken together it makes for a combustible mix of anger and frustration that leads many to the regrettable but understandable conclusion that taking a standardized test designed to measure student learning is not in the interest of student learning.

While this is an extreme case — and arguably abusive — test prep is still occurring citywide even at schools with high test scores.The organized opt - out movement here in NYC is led by local parents and educators who spend an inordinate amount of time researching the NYS Common Core testing program and educating themselves on developmentally appropriate pedagogy.

It leads many parents to believe that the school should be responsible for correcting their child's disabilities and that if they pass high - stakes testing it will make it so.

The transition to reading and math tests aligned with the Common Core in 2013 caused the number of students passing to plummet, unsettling parents, teachers and administrators, and leading many to protest that the standards were too high.

The email asked «Chief School Administrators, Charter School and Renaissance School Project Leads» to inform their «superintendents, teachers, test administrators, parents / caregivers, students and other stakeholders» that BIG Education in New Jersey is looking for feedback on student assessment.

The exam has provoked widespread consternation from parents and schools because of implementation problems that led to delays in administering the test, as well as a writing portion of the language arts section being deleted and a key interactive feature being dropped because it didn't work correctly.

President Obama, along with his Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, have been leading supporters of the effort to increase standardized testing, dramatically expand the number of charter schools and push the Common Core standards, curriculum and testing scheme on the nation's children, parents and teachers.

If the unions in this state were to follow the lead of Garfield High in Seattle and the numerous student, parent and teacher groups from around the country in refusing to administer the faulty tests and defy the powers that are shoving these ruinous policies down our throats, maybe we can turn this mess around.

«If you're a parent of a 3rd to 8th grader, we encourage you to learn more about opting out... If you're not a parent of a 3rd to 8th grader... show your solidarity with the parent - led movement against high - stakes testing — then spread the word.

On behalf of Connecticut parents, students and teachers, I'm writing to request that the Working Families Party of Connecticut follow the lead of your colleagues in New York State and join us here as we fight back against the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC testing program.

We know that the factors that lead to lower standardized test scores are poverty, language barriers and lack of parent or guardian involvement.

What's next for parents who've led the charge to opt their children out of standardized tests?

Meanwhile, Malloy's Commissioner of Education is not only preparing to take the stand against Connecticut's children in the critically important CCJEF School Funding Lawsuit, but she is leading the Malloy / Wyman administration's inappropriate attack on students, parents and the public school administrators who were honest and truthful, last spring, about a parent's right to opt their child out of the disastrous Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.

1) Join with other parents in your community and urge your school committee to follow the lead of Worcester, Norfolk, Mendon - Upton and others in allowing parents to refuse testing for their children.

It is a shockingly sad statement, and a powerful commentary on our times, that a leading proponent of the Common Core and the Common Core SBAC testing would engage in blatant lying in order to try and mislead students, parents, teachers and the public.

The PS 321 Testing Task Force is a parent - led group that works in partnership with teachers and school leadership to educate our community about the effects of NYS and NYC testing policies and to advocate for meaningful, developmentally appropriate, educator - developed student assesTesting Task Force is a parent - led group that works in partnership with teachers and school leadership to educate our community about the effects of NYS and NYC testing policies and to advocate for meaningful, developmentally appropriate, educator - developed student assestesting policies and to advocate for meaningful, developmentally appropriate, educator - developed student assessments.

There's continued dissatisfaction over the state's implementation of the new Common Core standards, which parents, students and teachers have complained has led to too much testing.

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